POLICE COURT.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 231, 28 September 1915, Page 7

POLICE COURT.

(Bffore Mr F. V. Frnzer, .S.M.I

DRUNKENNESS. Five first offenders forfeited bail, and Thomaa Wolfcnden (4.">), who had been drunk in charge of a horse and cart in Symonds Street, and had fallen off the cart, was lim-d 10/. Charles Lundon (50 1, who had been several da\n on medical treatment, had u> pay 10/ expenses. John Murphy (in), who had pot drunk when hie prohibition order was ' within five, days of expiry, had been in ' custody since Saturday, and he was convicted and discharged. HIS CHANCE. ; Ailie-t Edward Ginn (IS), who bud ' admitted a week ago that he had stolen ja number of article* of clothing from [the room of a fellow boarder at the I Workmen's Home, came up for sentence. The Probation Officer reportrd favourI nblv on tbo extension of probation to the youth, and intimated that a situation in the country was awaiting the lad. His Worship decided to admit fiinn to probation for two years, on condition that he took the work offer.-.l him on a ! farm, and complied with whatever conditions tlir Probation Officer iniplit mi- ! pose respecting hie conduct. MAW WHO SPILT BLOOD. William Thompson was charged that on August 21 he spilt blood on Stanley Street. Mr DenniKton. for defendant, fUte<J that though the roan had •'spilt blood." it was not the result of an affray. I Thompson was the driver of a cart, and had been engaged to drive hides from the abattoir into town. The City Council insisted on the hides being taken away almost immediately, when they were dripping, and it <ru impossible for defe.ndAnt to get a watertight cart tbat would prevent the blood dripping on the road. The offence occurred when defendant had to clop the cart to attend to his horse. Senior Sergeant Rutledg? eUUd that the trouble vu that defendant stopped the horse and allowed a pool of blood to collect on the road in front of a house. When the occupier of the house epoke to him ahont it. and asked him to clean up the mesji, Thompson was not at all courteous, and drove away, leaving the pool of blood to coagulate on the road. If he had attempted to sweep or wash it away he would not have been troubled further. "Mainly a matter of being esrelees of other people's convenience."' remarked his Workhip, who tint-d Thompson 10' and 7/ cost*. SAILORS ON THE SPREE. Edward Lemuel Baggstrom (211 and j David Mitchell (24) admitted that on I Sunday they stole from the s.s. Kotiti j two bottles of ■β-hiaky and three bottles 'of wine, value 27/, the property of the j Northern S.S. Company; »nd that they i did damagfe-on the Kotili to the value of Chief fpjftrture McMahon sUted that employed on the s.s. M:i;i.im and Mitchell on the s.s. Kotiti, *nd »n Sunday, when the Northern S.S. Company* boats were laid up at the wh»rf. thew two went aboard the ("frewa with a bottle' at whisky, which they, and others, drank Thereafter the two accused and another went aboard the Kotiti, wbere they broke the hasp off a door and the fastening from a drawer, and Ftole tb# wine and tcbiakT from the fh:pV. nkxir.. These liquors they iook aboard the «.«. Manaia, and most of it tn/ry drank. Mr. Allan Moody, for the accused, submitted that the whole thing was the outcome of drink, and the theft and mi«chief we-re (lone when the men were fired by drink and wanted to got moreHe suggested that under the cirrutnstanrea use might properly be made of section 23f> of tho J. P. Act to avoid entering a conviction for theft, as the men had had nothing of a dighonest nature against them hitherto. Chief Detective. McMahon stated that Bagjfstroro had been ten years with the company, and had a wife and two children, while Mitchell had been six or seven years with the compAny, and had been up previously only for drunkennew. His Worship remarked that thoujsb. the matter was too serious to pass over without conviction, he would mark hie realisation that it was mostly a matter of drink by imposing the penalty on the mischief charge and not on the theft charge. On the latter they would be ordered to pay 136 damages each, md on the mischief charge, they would be convicted and fined e»eh £2 and 10/ costs. MISCELXANIOUS. ■Tames McSliane. for permitting a horse to wander at large in Mt. Eden, was ordered to p«y 7/ costs.